Do you really think the average office worker cares about examining mount points or finding out how many USER handles a process is using? That's why Microsoft doesn't ship any of that with Windows, and they probably never will. More importantly, I'd rather have a third party write these kinds of tools. They're not limited by what marketing and support think is a good idea to ship. If Microsoft made them they probably wouldn't be as useful - not to mention everyone would whine about how they're evil because they're killing a niche.

As long as these tools are available, I could care less where I have to get them from or what I couldn't do before I install them. Duh.

You just know that he would have demanded that Linux be called 'GNU/Linux' and so on. He's known for turning down speaking engagements from people who refuse to do that, too.

I beginning to think Richard Stallman is techdom's Michael Jackson. Once brilliant, his past work is appreciated by all... but he currently exists in a vacuum where he lives off his dwindling reputation and fawning attention of a few creepy adoring fans while everyone else just scratches their heads and wonder what the hell happened to him.

These always make me smile. Microsoft, the big bad outsourcer. You're going to move IBM as well? IBM is the largest consumer of L1 visas in the US. These are much more insidious than the evil H1-Bs, I suggest reading up on them.

I don't know if you've ever interacted with IBM - specifically IBM Global Services (aka IBM India), but lately I've been thinking that the only American left in that company is Palmisano. Everyone else has to be either Indian or Chinese. I jest - just slightly.

While you're at it, send all the large financial and services companies in the US. Heck, just transfer the entire Fortune 1000 over there. That will take care of your problems.

Oh and BTW, I love the "Ballmer was at it again" bit here. Any chance of the submitter actually mentioning which CEOs have lobbied Washington for increased quotas and more relaxed requirements? Naaah, that doesn't sell any ad impressions nowadays.

Not following interface guidelines in itself is quite common on both Windows and OS X, but that usually has nothing to do with the lack of a unified platform UI.

The Windows situation is even worse: there are several native toolkits there

You're confusing the shell's control library with the stack used to access it. On Windows when you write a.NET, WTL, MFC or plain Win32 application, you're still targeting the Windows shell native controls.

technology that once powered supercomputers now is found in embedded devices. In recent years both MIPS32 and MIPS64 cores have been found powering everything from routers to the Sony PlayStation. About a year ago the first MIPS32 based netbooks appeared... We are talking about systems that reportedly will sell for as little as US $130 and which have already sold for as little as US $149. Say hello to the $150 netbook.

goliat1979 writes: "Big Armenian Genocide Lie. Did Talat Pasha Send Secret Telegrames
Ordering Genocide? [spam URL stripped]
Did Talat Pasha Send Secret Telegrames Ordering Genocide?
Armenian propaganda claiming that so-called genocide was an Ottoman
government policy requires proof that such a decision was in fact
made. For this purpose the Armenians produced a number of telegrams
attributed to Talat Pasha supposedly found by British forces commanded
by General Allenby when they seized Aleppo in 1918. It was claimed
that they were found in the office of an Ottoman official named Naim
Bey, and that they could be destroyed only because the British
occupation came with unexpected speed. Samples of these telegrams were
published in Paris in 1920 by an Armenian author named Aram Andonian,
(38) and they also were presented at the Berlin trial of the Armenian
terrorist Tehlirian, who killed Talat Pasha. Nevertheless, the court
neither considered these documents as "evidence" nor was involved in
any decision claiming the authenticity of them. These documents were,
however, entirely fabricated, and the claims deriving from them
therefore cannot be sustained. They were in fact published by the
Daily Telegraph of London in 1922, (39) which also attributed them to
a discovery made by Allenby's army. But when the British Foreign
Office enquired about them at the War Office, and with Allenby
himself, it was discovered that they had not been discovered by the
British army but, rather, had been produced by an Armenian group in
Paris. In addition, examination of the photographs provided in the
Andonian volume shows clearly that neither in form, script or
phraseology did they resemble normal Ottoman administrative documents,
and that they were, therefore, rather crude forgeries.
Following the Entente occupation of Istanbul, the British and the
French arrested a number of Ottoman political and military figures and
some intellectuals on charges of war crimes. In this they were given
substantial assistance by the Ottoman Liberal Union Party, which had
been placed in power by the Sultan after the war, and which was
anxious to do anything it could to definitively destroy the Union and
Progress Party and its leaders, who had long been political enemies.
Most of the prisoners were sent off to imprisonment in Malta, but the
four Union and Progress leaders who had fled from the country just
before the occupation were tried and sentenced to death in absentia in
Istanbul. Three other Government officials were sentenced to death and
executed, but it was discovered later that the evidence on which the
convictions had been based was false.
In the meantime, the British looked everywhere to find evidence
against those who had been sent to Malta. Despite the complete
cooperation of wome enthusraztic supporters such as the Ottoman
Liberal Union (38) ANDONIAN, Aram, Documents Qfficiels concernant les
Massacres Armmiens, Paris, Armenian National Delegation, 1920. (39)
Daily Telegraph, 29 May 1922. government, nothing incriminating could
be found among the Ottoman government documents. Similar searches in
the British archives were fruitless. Finally, in desperation, the
British Foreign Office turned to the American archives in Washington,
but in reply, one of their representatives, R. C. Craigie, wrote to
Lord Curzon:
"I regret to inform your Lordship that there was nothing therein which
could be used as evidence against the Turks who are at present being
detained at Malta...no concrete facts being given which could
constitute satisfactory incriminating evidence.... The reports in
question do not appear in any case to contain evidence against these
Turks which would be useful even for the purpose of corroborating
information already in the possession of His Majesty's
Government.''(40)
Uncertain as to what should be done with prisoners, who already had
been held for two years, without trial and without even any charges
being filed or evidence produced, the Foreign Office applied for
advice to the Law Officers of the Crown in London, who concluded on 29
July, 1921:
"Up to the present no statements have been taken from witnesses who
can depose to the truth of the charges made against the prisoners. It
is indeed uncertain whether any witnesses can be found." (41)
At this time the "documents" produced by Andonian were available, but
despite their desperate search for evidence, which could be presented
in a court of law, the British, never used them because it was evident
that they were forgeries. As a result, the prisoners were quietly
released in 1921, without charges ever having been filed or evidence
produced.
It is useful to reiterate that the main elements in the chain of
evidence constructed in proving that Andonian's "documents" were all
patent forgeries:
1. To show that his forgeries were in fact "authentic Ottoman
documents" Andonian relied on the signature of the Governor of Aleppo,
Mustafa Abdiilhalik Bey, which he claimed was appended to several of
the "documents" in question. By examining several actual specimens of
Mustafa Abdülhalik Bey's signature as preserved on contemporary
official documents, it is established that the alleged signatures
appended to Andonian's "documents" were forgeries.
2. In one of his forged documents, Andonian dated the note and
signature attributed to Mustafa Abdülhalik Bey. Again, by a comparison
with authentic correspondence between the Governor (40) 13 July 1921;
British Foreign Office Archives 371/6504/8519 (41) British Foreign
Office Archives 371/6504/E8745
Aleppo and the Ministry of the Interior in Istanbul, on the date in
question, it is proven that the Governor of Aleppo on that date was
Bekir Sami Bey, not Mustafa Abdulhalik Bey.
3. Consistently, Andonian's forgeries attest to the fact that he was
either totally unaware of, or carelessly neglected to account for, the
differences between the Muslim Rumi and Christian calendars. The
numerous errors he made as a result of this oversight are, in and of
themselves, sufficient to prove the fabricated nature of his
"documents". Among other things, the errors Andonian made in this
respect served to destroy the system of reference numbers and dates
that he concocted for his "documents"."Link to Original Source

MojoKid writes: "Gmail continues to improve their mail client interface and within the last month, we've seen additions such as an Undo Send feature and YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Yelp Preview capabilities, as well as many other previous additions. Today,
Gmail added a "suggest more recipients" feature which is useful but also a tad creepy. You see, the suggest more recipients feature can suggest people you should email based on previous conversations.
In other words, if you've had threads going with a group of people, the next time you add a couple of those recipients to the address field, Gmail can recommend other people you might want to include as well."

xororand writes: Several exploits for Apple's Mac OS X are in circulation which have not yet been patched. In a short test carried out by the heise Security editorial team, one of the exploits allowed a Mac OS X 10.5.6 user with normal privileges to obtain root privileges. The problem is triggered when mounting malformed HFS disk images. The exploit consists of a shell script and some source code written in C. The C code generates the disk image which, when mounted, provokes the flaw that allows execution of code at root level.The exploits are available here: http://www.digit-labs.org/ (recent additions)